Big Business

The bigness and the economic “power” of the railroad companies did not impede the emergence of the motor car and the airplane.

Human Action, p. 276; p. 275

Big business always serves—directly or indirectly—the masses.

The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, p. 2

Not offices and bureaucrats, but big business deserves credit for the fact that most of the families in the United States own a motorcar and a radio set.

Planned Chaos, p. 15

The big business enterprises are almost without exception corporations, precisely because they are too big for single individuals to own them entirely. The growth of business units has far outstripped the growth of individual fortunes.

Theory and History, p. 118

The characteristic mark of big business is mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. Under capitalism the workers themselves, directly or indirectly, are the main consumers of all those things that the factories are turning out.

The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, p. 42

What makes a firm big is its success in best filling the demands of the buyers. If the bigger enterprise did not better serve the people than a smaller one, it would long since have been reduced to smallness.

Planning for Freedom, p. 134

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

Economic Policy, p. 4